One of Double Edge's neighbors, a sculptor who also runs a bed-and-breakfast that caters to the company's out-of-town patrons, told me with mock incredulousness, "I don't know what it is about this place

A mere rusticity is not difficult of conception, for it exhibits itself entirely in personal habits and those the most easy of imitation, because they require little or no control of limbs or of countenance; but the different expressions of absolute inexperience, its astonishments, its affected incredulousness, and real credulity, its utterly false conclusions and its self betraying involuntary acknowledgements, require a nice observation and a powerful explanation of countenance and voice.

In Washington, seeing the Capitol building for the first time as his parents struggle with navigating by map, Philip says with a child's incredulousness, "[T]here appeared before us the biggest white thing I had ever seen" (57).

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